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I am 72 retired single from san Francisco, a ,social security income $2k plus other retirement $2k total $4k monthly with cash buy REO $100k ,my credit is in toilet 1 bed /1 bath just basic surviving near the ocean, swimming ,fishing, snookering ,cooking ,lay on the beach and sleep just basic stuff to eat three meal and to grow my own vegetal and raise chicken too if I have some land with house and die and buried there-- my health is average .-- any one help comment ,recommend or how to go by settling in Haw ill I heard big island is cheapest place live -I love tropical weather that is the main reason thank you
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I'd rent a place here and become a local first. Honestly, my wife and I have been here since November and can't wait to head back to Alaska.
Buyers fees are a lot less if you are local btw.
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Alaskana,could you talk about your reasons for wanting to leave?Might be helpful to those planning to make the leap. Thanks.
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quote:
Originally posted by Alaskana
Buyers fees are a lot less if you are local btw.
The fees charged to the buyers by the escrow companies are the same regardless of where the buyers are located.
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Alaskana, please tell us why you want to leave. What has been the problems that drove you to decide to bail?
It would help us all to hear about it if you feel like it.
Thanks, Jon (trying to move mainland to HPP)
Jon in Puyallup, Wa.
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Well, the job market sucks. To put it honestly, they are a little racist about hiring white folks also. (I'm Hispanic but it doesn't matter. Either way, it's either no hire or lose your job after a while)
No decent book stores. Hunting gear is expensive as hell, etc. All in all, there is nothing of interest for the wife and I here. People drive lime maniacs, the gun and self defense laws are worse then California, and a huge number of houses are uninsurable.
Don't get mecwrong, it's beautiful here. Would be great to visit, but to live here isn't anywhere near what I would consider fun.
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Lol oddly we are considering going to puyallup or Spokane after we get out of here.
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As for jobs and the economy, anyone know where it isn't a problem? We are in a major recession, some say it will be labeled a depression 30 years from now. I have not seen any community where new arrivals had an easy time of finding a job. I came here seven years ago and have found hundreds of things to do and see. I guess you have to want to find them. No one place is the best place for everyone. It just depends on what you want to DO in your adventerous retirement years. We left suburban and beach living to be up on the mountain here. With 30 acres and a custom home we are having a great adventure in country living which we have never done before. We have met wonderful people and been treated quite well by most. Outsiders always have a little edge to overcome, no matter where they go. Racism does exist here indeed. We whites are feeling the struggle many other felt on the mainland in past generations. It is what it is, and can be overcome in most circumstances though not all. It takes a certain amount of learning about the culture and absorbing some of it. This is not Kansas. Things aren't done the way they are done in California, or Chicago, or Oklahoma or New York. It's an island in the middle of nowhere that hardly accepts it's relationship with the United States as a state... more of a third world country on the fringes. It's not for everyone but to be honest, we just love it here!
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Pslamont: I agree with you in the majority of what you said. For the wife and I, there just isn't anything appealing. Mind you, I'm in my mid 20's though lol.
As for the recession, that's part of why I want to go home. Alaska is remarkably similar to Hawaii, if just the opposite extreme. Alaska (Fairbanks at least is hiring like crazy. Anyone who wants a job can have one. Heck, I made $15 an hour years ago changing tires at walmart.
Hawaii just isn't a place for us. Soon as we get the funds (and on $400 unemployment a month, that'll take a bit) and the in laws wrap up, were taking off.
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Alaskana,
Can I ask what drew you here in the first place? That might also help others contemplating the move here make their decision. I worked with a woman from Alaska a few years ago, her husband realized within just a few months that he couldn't stand it here, and they left for Oklahoma as soon as the school year was over. They came because family had moved here and discovered that it was just not for them. He was always too hot, even though they moved pretty far mauka, and described living in Puna as being like living on an Indian reservation in the middle of the Pacific. I know the poverty bothered them far more than the isolation, they had lived really far out in the boonies in Alaska (she taught in a one room school with less than 20 students out in the bush).
I do agree about the difficulty in mainlanders getting hired, I think it is worse for men than women, unless you have a highly specialized skill that is in demand.
Good luck with your next step, wherever it is.
Carol
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